Graceful shutdown

[mohamedhafez]

Is there a way to gracefully shut down a process started with torquebox run? (completing existing requests but rejecting new ones, then shutting down). If so, could it be put into the documentation?

[bbrowning]

We do attempt to shut things down gracefully if you CTRL+C or send a SIGINT to the torquebox process. I actually don't know if this waits for in-flight requests to complete or terminates them abruptly. It would be worth a test to see how it behaves.

[mohamedhafez]

They are definitely terminated abruptly, I tried SIGINT and SIGTERM before posting this issue and in-flight requests were dropped.

[mohamedhafez]

Finishing in flight requests while rejecting new ones with a 502 or 503 would be great because it would allow zero downtime deploys via nginx.